Re: patch for select in zvt

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Nathan Hurst wrote:

> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Damian Ivereigh wrote:
>
> > On 16 May 2001 07:03:49 +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> >
> > > If this is purely for selection, I have never seen why people use
> > > the left mouse button all the time. Left-click at start. Right click
> > > at end. Damn sight easier than trying to co-ordinate clicking, holding
> > > the button down, and dragging the mouse all at the same time :)
> > >
> > > I suspect it's because they don't know you can do it. I remember trying
> > > to learn to use a mouse very clearly, and I was rather annoyed when
> > > I discovered this and wondered why no-one had told me about it before :)
> > I never knew you could do that! Nor did my collegue sitting next to me!
> > That is a nice feature. Trouble is it doesn't work in other places (like
> > gedit).
>
> Me neither, I'm going to give this a go for a while.  The most likely
> explaination as to why gedit doesn't have this is that the authors of
> gedit didn't know about it either :)  Emacs does though.

I think the reason gui editors don't have this feature is the difficulty 
of separating single right click from one paired with a left click.  How 
do you know when to select and when to pop up a menu?  Perhaps a mod 
key.  Hold a modifier, left-click then right click.  I like it ;)

(matter of fact, just playing with Mozilla, click then shift-click and 
it makes a selection.  gedit doesn't seem to tho.)

-b

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